Perhaps you should try to write a GUI text editor using POE (see http://poe.perl.org/ - basically POE is event based programming in Perl) and the GTK+ Perl modules. You should be able to prototype an editor with not very many lines of code.

Have a look on the POE site for examples using Gtk; who knows, it might be your bag.

$h=$ENV{HOME};my@q=split/\n\n/,`cat $h/.quotes`;$s="$h/."
."signature";$t=`cat $s`;print$t,"\n",$q[rand($#q)],"\n";
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